Editing Claire Weekes (section)

==Early career in biology==
Claire Weekes began her career as a research scientist, receiving her [[Doctor of Science|Doctorate of Science]] in 1930 from the [[University of Sydney]]; she was the first woman to attain that degree from the university. Initially working under Prof. [[Launcelot Harrison]], she conducted research on reproduction and placentation in viviparous (live-bearing) lizards from 1925 to 1934; part of this period (1929–1931) was spent in England in the lab of J.P. Hill.  Weekes' work led to eight published papers, including a major summary published in 1935 in the Proceedings of the [[Zoological Society of London]]. Weekes' work provided the basis an understanding of reptile placentation that lasted for nearly 50 years. More recent work has continued to build on the empirical and conceptual framework that she established.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Blackburn | first1 = Daniel G | year = 1993 | title = Chorioallantoic placentation in squamate reptiles: structure, function, development, and evolution | journal = Journal of Experimental Zoology | volume = 266 | issue = 5| pages = 414–430 | doi=10.1002/jez.1402660508}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Blackburn | first1 = Daniel G | year = 2006 | title = Squamate reptiles as model organisms for the evolution of viviparity | journal = Herpetological Monographs | volume = 20 | pages = 131–146 | doi=10.1655/0733-1347(2007)20[131:sramof]2.0.co;2}}</ref> Weekes' research on the complex placentae of ''[[Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii]]'' was instrumental in the establishment of the species as a model organism for studying the evolution of pregnancy.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Griffith | first1 = O. W. | last2 = Ujvari | first2 = B. | last3 = Belov | first3 = K. | last4 = Thompson | first4 = M. B. | year = 2013 | title = Placental lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene expression in a placentotrophic lizard, Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii | journal = Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution | volume =  320| issue = 7 | pages = 465–70 | doi = 10.1002/jez.b.22526 | pmid = 23939756 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Griffith | first1 = O.W. | last2 = Van Dyke | first2 = J.U. | last3 = Thompson | first3 = M.B. | year = 2013 | title = No implantation in an extra-uterine pregnancy of a placentotrophic reptile | doi = 10.1016/j.placenta.2013.03.002 | pmid = 23522396 | journal = Placenta | volume = 34 | issue = 6| pages = 510–511 }}</ref>

'''Claire Weekes' published papers in reproductive biology of reptiles: '''
*{{cite journal | last1 = Harrison | first1 = L. | last2 = Weekes | first2 = H.C. | year = 1925 | title = On the occurrence of placentation in the scincid lizard, ''Lygosoma entrecasteauxi.'' | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 50 | pages = 472–486 }}
*Weekes, H.C. (1927a).  Placentation and other phenomena in the scincid lizard ''Lygosoma (Hinulia) quoyi.''   Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 52:499–554.
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1927b | title = A note on reproductive phenomena in some lizards | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 52 | pages = 25–32 }}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1929 | title = On placentation in reptiles. I. | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 54 | pages = 34–60 }}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1930 | title = On placentation in reptiles. II. | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 55 | pages = 550–576 }}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1933 | title = On the distribution, habitat, and reproductive habits of certain European and Australian snakes and lizards, with particular regard to their adoption of viviparity | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 58 | pages = 270–274 }}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1934 | title = The corpus luteum in certain oviparous and viviparous reptiles | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. | volume = 69 | pages = 380–391 }}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Weekes | first1 = H.C. | year = 1935 | title = A review of placentation among reptiles, with particular regard to the function and evolution of the placenta | journal = Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. | volume = 2 | pages = 625–645 }}